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Terminal Multiplexer

Muxly – lightweight, highly customizable CLI for managing tmux sessions

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Muxly is a highly configurable Tmux Session Manager based on ThePrimeagen’s tmux-sessionizer script.

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Monitoring

wisu – fast, minimalist directory tree viewer

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wisu is fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust, with a powerful interactive mode.

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Typing

OctoType – TUI typing trainer

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Education, TUI

OctoType is a TUI typing trainer made with Ratatui, and powered by Gladius – Heavily inspired by Monkeytype, with a focus on customizability.

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TermiRs – SSH terminal client

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

TermiRs is a modern, async SSH terminal client built with Rust and Ratatui.

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Time tracking

Samaya – minimalist Pomodoro timer for your desktop

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Designed to help you stay focused and productive, Samaya offers a clean, distraction-free interface to manage work and break intervals

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Selection of utilities

checkpac – fast package checker for Arch

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

checkpac is a fast and simple package checking tool for Arch Linux. Find installed packages, check versions, and discover available packages

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Checker Framework – pluggable type-checking for Java

December 6, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

The Checker Framework enhances Java’s type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets software developers detect and prevent errors

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Security

EVTXtract – recovers and reconstructs fragments of EVTX log files

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

EVTXtract recovers and reconstructs fragments of EVTX log files from raw binary data, including unallocated space and memory images.

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Clocks

Clox – geeky clock for terminal enthusiasts

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Clox is a terminal-based clock application designed for terminal enthusiasts who appreciate simplicity, elegance, and productivity.

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SQL

data-peek – SQL client desktop application

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Built for developers who want to quickly peek at their data without the bloat. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.

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Text Editor

Pragtical – practical and pragmatic code editor

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Pragtical is a cross-platform code editor with a modern graphical interface, developed using C and Lua(JIT), powered by SDL

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Apple Numbers

xleak – Excel files in your terminal

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Office, TUI

xleak brings Excel spreadsheets to the terminal with beautiful rendering, powerful export capabilities, and a feature-rich interactive TUI.

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Apple Numbers

Vex – Excel viewer

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Office, TUI

Vex is a beautiful, fast, and feature-rich terminal-based Excel and CSV viewer built with Go.

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Gaming Chat

Rivet – terminal UI Discord client

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Rivet is a terminal UI Discord client written in Rust. It’s in an early stage of development.

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Security

AVML – Acquire Volatile Memory for Linux

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

AVML is an X86_64 userland volatile memory acquisition tool written in Rust, intended to be deployed as a static binary.

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Selection of utilities

makeself – make self-extractable archives

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

makeself.sh is a small shell script to create self-extracting tar.gz archives.

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Coding

Infer – static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

December 4, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Infer is a static analysis tool for Java, C++, Objective-C, and C. Infer is written in OCaml.

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SSD

dusage – command-line disk usage information tool

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dusage is a command line disk usage information tool written in the Rust programming language.

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Platform Games

Clone Dash – clone of Muse Dash game

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Clone Dash is a cross-platform clone of Muse Dash, a parkour-rhythm game combination.

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Selection of utilities

SearXNG – privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

SearXNG is a free and open source internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from up to 247 search services.

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